Saturday’s editorial relates our hope that the first leg of I-73 will yet be built soon. (A quick disclaimer: This was written on Thursday to accommodate some vacation time, and because this process has moved so fast, an updated, newer version may have appeared in today’s paper).
For a few days this week, supporters of the long-promised and long-delayed I-73 had a victory to rejoice in.
The news that the state Transportation Commission had agreed to build the interchange with I-95 and five miles of I-73 toward U.S. 501 seemed the first step in finally seeing asphalt on the ground in South Carolina after decades of promises and lobbying. But then came the EPA.
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Friday’s editorial laments the fact that the state’s budget has become less about reaching higher than making do.
Before the Senate began its debate of the state’s budget on Tuesday, it opened the day’s session, as it always does, with a Bible verse and short prayer from its chaplain. The day’s verse – Job 9:25 – was more prescient than most:
“My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.”
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Has Tim Scott forgot about us? Thursday’s editorial wants to know.
When The Sun News’ editorial board met with Tim Scott in 2010 before his election to Congress, we brought up the very real possibility that his district would be changed during his term and asked how he’d react if it looked as though he would not be representing the Grand Strand after the lines are redrawn.
“Promises made are promises kept,” he told us then. Now more than five months into his term, we’re starting to wonder.
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It looks like we didn't have room to include all of the numbers from the latest Winthrop poll in the paper this morning, but luckily the Internet has more than enough space for me to put them here. You can read all of the questions and answers if you want to, but the part I found the most interesting was the wide open race for GOP candidate.
I'm no political scientist but to me it says one thing above all others: We're very early in the race. It seems that perhaps nobody's paid enough attention to the candidates to be able to tell them apart yet. I know I'm as guilty of that as anybody else. Ask me what the difference is between Rick Santorum and Herman Cain and my first reaction would probably be, "Herman who?"
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By Sunny Fry
Despite the recession, despite the housing decline, despite wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes and famines -- Easter came.
Easter came, and hundreds of strangers got up before dawn to make their sleepy way to the ocean, to move together in darkness to an appointed gathering spot at the edge of an endlessly moving ocean, with only faint pre-dawn light to guide feet over cool, soft sand. To chant together familiar litanies, binding them at least in that time and in that place, in a shared history; to sing together, thinly against the unstilled waves and salty breezes, familiar hymns of hope and promise.
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